Reuse and recycle: give a book to an underserved public school in New York City.
Project Cicero is annual non-profit book drive that helps under-resourced NYC public schools obtain books. Project Cicero's website says it has placed "1.5 million books into 8,500 classrooms and school libraries reaching 350,000 children in under-resourced schools in New York City." Over a hundred schools participate. In 2010 they collected about 200,000 books, many of which are sent to the same schools to which NY City Teaching Fellows and Teach for America teachers are assigned. Kudos!
How Brooklyn Residents can Recycle Books Via Project Cicero
Project Cicero is looking for specific kinds of books: chapter books for children, recent reference books and so on. See Project Cicero's wish list. You can donate books online.
Packer Collegiate in Brooklyn Heights and Poly Prep in Dyker Heights, among other Brooklyn private and parochial schools, are running book drives for Project Cicero this month.
Project Cicero is a partnership of New York City parent and student volunteers, The New York Society Library, Children For Children Foundation, Vornado Realty Trust, and The New York Post, in association with the New York City Teaching Fellows and Teach for America New York.
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